In The Call of the Wild, what does the relationship between Buck and Thornton symbolize?

The relationship between Buck and John Thornton symbolizes the bond between animals and humans. John is the pull that keeps Buck from going wild. When Buck lives with the judge, he lives like a king. Everything is his domain, but he is not especially close to anyone. All of the humans from there on are exploitative, ignorant, or abusive. Then Buck meets John Thornton, and it is a relationship based on love and trust.

When John Thornton first comes across Buck, he sees him with a group of people who do not know what they are doing. They are clearly going to kill themselves and the dogs. Wanting to follow the code of the North, Thornton doesn’t intervene at first. He just looks on in anger. Then he finally can’t take it anymore.

John Thornton stood over Buck, struggling to control himself, too convulsed with rage to speak.

"If you strike that dog again, I'll kill you," he at last managed to say in a choking voice. (Ch. 5)

John Thornton does nothing to stop the people from meeting their fates. He cares more about the animals than the humans. More importantly, he has seen that these people will succumb to their stupidity sooner or later. He hates what he has seen them do.

The relationship John Thornton has with Buck is pure heaven after what Buck has been through. It would be so easy at this point for him to just run off, but Thornton is the polar opposite of the type of people that Hal, Mercedes, and Charles represent. They are abusive and ignorant. John Thornton loves and appreciates Buck. Buck loves him back.

The relationship that Buck and John Thornton exemplify is different than the one described in the beginning, where Buck helps the judge’s sons hunt and has an appreciation for the judge and what the judge provides. It is Buck in his place, ruling his kingdom and household. With John Thornton, Thornton and Buck are one another’s everything.

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time. This he had never experienced at Judge Miller's down in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. With … the Judge [he had] a stately and dignified friendship. But love that was feverish and burning, that was adoration, that was madness, it had taken John Thornton to arouse. (Ch. 6)

It is important to note these different roles dogs play in people’s lives. For some people, a dog is a pet. For some, he is a business partner. For others, he is a family member. The relationship that John Thornton and Buck have exemplifies the term “man’s best friend.” It is a real bond.

Is there a word/phrase for "unperformant"?

As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...

A man has a garden measuring 84 meters by 56 meters. He divides it into the minimum number of square plots. What is the length of the square plots?

We wish to divide this man's garden into the minimum number of square plots possible. A square has all four sides with the same length.Our garden is a rectangle, so the answer is clearly not 1 square plot. If we choose the wrong length for our squares, we may end up with missing holes or we may not be able to fit our squares inside the garden. So we have 84 meters in one direction and 56 meters in the other direction. When we start dividing the garden in square plots, we are "filling" those lengths in their respective directions. At each direction, there must be an integer number of squares (otherwise, we get holes or we leave the garden), so that all the square plots fill up the garden nicely. Thus, our job here is to find the greatest common divisor of 84 and 56. For this, we prime factor both of them: `56 = 2*2*2*7` `84 = 2*2*3*7` We can see that the prime factors and multiplicities in common are `2*2*7 = 28` . This is the desired length of the square plots. If you wi...

nouns - what do you call the person who passes the trophies to the prize giver/presenter?

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